NASA capsule buzzes moon, last big step before lunar orbit
Monday, 21 November 2022 15:19
NASA's Orion capsule reached the moon Monday, whipping around the far side and buzzing the lunar surface on its way to a record-breaking orbit with test dummies sitting in for astronauts.
It's the first time a capsule has visited the moon since NASA's Apollo program 50 years ago, and represents a huge milestone in the $4.1 billion test flight that began last Wednesday.
The close approach of 81 miles (130 kilometers) occurred as the crew capsule and its three wired-up dummies were on the far side of the moon. Because of a half-hour communication blackout, flight controllers in Houston did not know if the critical engine firing went well until the capsule emerged from behind the moon, 232,000 miles (370,000 kilometers) from Earth.
Canadian startup developing lunar rover to deliver power
Monday, 21 November 2022 15:00
A Canadian startup is developing a rover it plans to launch to the moon in the next few years to provide power to other spacecraft on the lunar surface.
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New Space Force procurement shop subscribes to the space-as-a-service model
Monday, 21 November 2022 14:00
The Space Force is bucking traditional military procurement programs with a shop built to buy technologies that the space industry provides as a service.
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Orion, European Service Module and Earth during Artemis I
Monday, 21 November 2022 12:48
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Orion, European Service Module and Earth during Artemis I NASA confirms decision to keep JWST name after historical report
Monday, 21 November 2022 10:37
NASA says a historical review of actions by former administrator James Webb confirmed its decision to keep the agency’s flagship space telescope named after him.
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Watch live: ESA Council Meeting at Ministerial Level
Monday, 21 November 2022 09:01
The ESA Council at Ministerial level (CM22) is taking place in Paris, France, on 22 and 23 November. ESA’s Member States, Associated States and Cooperating States will be invited to together strengthen Europe’s space ambitions and ensure that space continues to serve European citizens. Follow our live coverage of CM22 via ESA WebTV.
Hall of mirrors for Proba-3 laser testing
Monday, 21 November 2022 08:24
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Hall of mirrors for Proba-3 laser testing Chinese coast guard seizes rocket debris from Filipino navy
Monday, 21 November 2022 08:15
ESA DG: What’s on the table for CM22?
Monday, 21 November 2022 08:00
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Josef Aschbacher, ESA Director General, explains what is on the table for ESA at CM22, ESA’s Council at Ministerial level taking place on 22 and 23 November 2022, a crucial milestone as Europe sets out its ambitions and plans for space activities in the coming years and decades.
Artemis 1 launch boosts ESA’s exploration ambitions
Sunday, 20 November 2022 15:57
The successful launch of the Artemis 1 mission comes just in time for the European Space Agency as it seeks support from its member states for new exploration initiatives.
Earth-sun distance dramatically alters seasons of equatorial Pacific over 22,000-year cycle
Sunday, 20 November 2022 11:44
Weather and climate modelers understand pretty well how seasonal winds and ocean currents affect El Nino patterns in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, impacting weather across the United States and sometimes worldwide.
But new computer simulations show that one driver of annual weather cycles in that region - in particular, a cold tongue of surface waters stretching westward along the iSpace reaches agreement with Mitsui Sumitomo to become first user of commercial lunar insurance
Sunday, 20 November 2022 11:44
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co., Ltd. ("MSI"), a subsidiary of MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, Inc. based in Tokyo, Japan, has reached an agreement with ispace, inc. (ispace), a global lunar exploration company, to provide the world's first "Lunar Insurance" policy that comprehensively covers risks arising from ispace's Mission 1, from the launch of the rocket to the lunar landing.
The agree ispace Announces Mission 1 Launch Date
Sunday, 20 November 2022 11:44
ispace, inc., a global lunar exploration company, plans to launch its Mission 1 (M1) lunar lander, part of the HAKUTO-R lunar exploration program, on Nov. 28, 2022, at the earliest, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Founder and CEO Takeshi Hakamada announced at a press conference in Tokyo.
In addition to the launch date announcement, ispace unveiled 10 mi Drug discovery and development - in space
Sunday, 20 November 2022 11:44
Carrying out scientific experiments in space allows scientists to study and make drugs without gravity, which can lead to surprising results that improve research back on Earth. According to a cover story in Chemical and Engineering News, an independent news outlet of the American Chemical Society, more commercial entities are expanding offerings in low-Earth orbit, which could someday enable mo Jet engine installed on NASA's X-59
Sunday, 20 November 2022 11:44
NASA's quiet supersonic X-59 now has the engine that will power it in flight. The installation of the F414-GE-100 engine took place at Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California, earlier this month, marking a major milestone as the X-59 approaches the completion of its assembly.
The 13-foot-long engine from General Electric Aviation packs 22,000 pounds of propulsion ene